You may think that text editors like the familiar Notepad could hardly be improved. Yet, Notepad++ offers several additional features that can be useful for translators and project managers.

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• code auto-completion (default codes are HTML, SQL and RC);
• regular expression search/replace (see this article for additional information);
• dynamic position of Views (That means you can visualize (edit) 2 different documents at the same time. This is useful for complex copy/paste operations. You can also visualize (edit) in the 2 views one document at 2 different positions as well).
  
• bookmark;
• brace and indent guideline highlighting;
• file status auto-detection: if you modify or delete a file which opened in Notepad++, you will be notified to update your document (reload the file or remove the file).
• zoom in, zoom out;
• integrated spellchecker (but you need to separately download Aspell libraries);
• integrated FTP browser.

• modifying the brackets format, for example from simple bracket (') to double brackets ("). This operation is neither easy nor reliable when using the habitual find/replace function or the regular expressions;
• selecting a word and finding it backwards and forwards in a text without using Find;
• deleting spaces or tabulations at the beginning or the end of a line of text (they can cause errors);
• dividing a line of text where the character you have specified in Windows clipboard is located. This is useful when you are working on a text that has been pasted from another application);
• deleting tags from a HTML file, with the possibility of replacing tables with tabulations;
• sorting the lines in a text (this is useful when you need to sort glossaries in text format without having to convert them into Excel).

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Hi,
I am a freelance translator and so far, Trados has been too expensive for me. I could use Deja Vu X2 to work with ttx files, but I never have done that yet, and I am not sure it really works. Could I translate a ttx file with notepad++???? THat would be great, especially if it works so good that the client does not notice you used notepad++. My guess is that it is possible, but that you do not benefit from the automated translation features of Trados. But that is not such a big deal I think, if I have to translate a website, usually there is not so much repetition. I hope you can answer this question.

thanks a lot, interesting article.

Michael Smissaert , April 12, 2012 | url

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Hi, you could use a text editor to translate TTX, because at the end of the story it's just XML. However, you would probably lose your sight within so many tags... and you'll risk to screw up the file, so that it's no longer usable with Trados. If you already own DejaVu I strongly suggest to take a look at the manual and read how to deal with TTX files. You can also find info online, such as this article: http://letconex.blogspot.com.e...es-in.html
Alternatively, you might try OmegaT, the free and open source CAT tool. You would need the Okapi Plug-in (http://www.opentag.com/okapi/w...for_OmegaT) on top of a standard OmegaT installation.
HIH
Regards
Marco

Administrator , April 12, 2012 | url

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